U+16847 "𖡇" Bamum Letter Phase-A Njam Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𖡇
U+16847 "𖡇" Bamum Letter Phase-A Njam is a specific glyph from the Bamum script, an African writing system developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in what is now Cameroon. This character represents the syllable “njam” and belongs to Phase A, the initial and most complex stage of the script’s evolution under King Njoya, featuring intricate pictographic forms. It is encoded in the Unicode Bamum block as part of an effort to preserve and digitally support this historic script, allowing for its use in modern text processing and digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+16847 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Bamum Letter Phase-A Njam |
| Block | Bamum Supplement |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𖡇 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𖡇 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x96 0xA1 0x87 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD81A 0xDC47 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00016847 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud81a\udc47 |